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All Systems Are Go For VLO

ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks in the refining industry group have taken a hit since making their major highs in mid-2007. Signs of life remain, however, and Valero Energy Corp. appears to be preparing for a move higher.

Are Bonds For You?

ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Everybody knows about stocks, but what about bonds? Bonds come in all shapes and forms, some of which may be just what you&apos;re looking for. Look and see if bonds would be a good match for you.

Are Diamond Patterns Friend Or Foe?

Are Discretionary Trading Tools Worth The Money?

ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...There are dozens of companies that claim to have the best indicators and trading tools. Most fail to deliver. Here&apos;s a look at a set of discretionary trading tools that actually delivers what is promised.

Are FSESX And FSAVX Trading Places?

ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Based on a monthly performance ranking, the automotive industry group stocks are still on top, even though upward momentum is slowing. Conversely, the energy services stocks have been lagging for months but now appear ready to launch higher. Will these f

Are Leveraged Sector ETFs For You? by L.A. Little

ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Are Leveraged Sector ETFs For You? by L.A. Little
Find out if you can include these products in your list of tradables.
IN 1992, the American Stock Exchange (Amex) petitioned the Securities and Exchange Commission (Sec) to create a standalone index-ba

Are Long-Term Bond Prices Headed Higher?

Are Managed Futures the Future? by Victor Sperandeo

ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Are Managed Futures The Future? by Victor Sperandeo
This well-known money manager believes that managed futures should be a part of your portfolio. Here's why.
Very little can drastically alter the economy and financial markets more than a change in mo

Are Market Challenges Rising?

ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...This market has been a little tougher than usual to trade. Bulls are claiming the bottom has been put in, while bears say there is worse to come. Based on these next indicators, the bears have probability on their side.

Are Office Supplies, The Paper Kind, An Indicator Of A Recovery?

ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...History has shown that when a stock market enters a recovery phase, more paper is used. The reason is simple; invoices, and writing on those invoices, use ink, pens, pencils and other such office supplies, and when that company uses recycled materials, t

Are Reversals Under Way For Crude Oil and Natural Gas?

Are Silver Futures Overheated?

ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Silver is part of the precious metals sector currently in a long-term bull market. With all the uncertainity related to the equity markets and the global terror threat, it has had a vertical upmove in the past few days. Vertical upmoves are something e

Are Stocks And Bonds Recoupling?

Are The Averages in Gear? by Richard L. Evans

ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Are The Averages in Gear? by Richard L. Evans
What is Dow theory really indicating when the industrial and transportation averages are out of sync? Here's a Dow theory specialist to clarify.
One of Dow theory's main tenets and the basis of much modern-

Are The Dollar Bears Done?

Are The Industrials Outperforming?

ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Relative strength analysis compares one stock or market to another to determine if that stock or market is out- or underperforming the stock or market it is being compared to. Here the industrial market sector is compared to the S&amp;P 500 to determine

Are There Persistent Cycles? by E. Michael Poulos

ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Are There Persistent Cycles? by E. Michael Poulos
Most technical indicators use a fixed lookback length based on the idea that cycles are present in the price data. Should the same fixed lookback length be used for all markets? Are there persistent cycl

Are Three-Bar Patterns Reliable For Stocks? by Thomas Bulkowski

ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Are Three-Bar Patterns
Reliable For Stocks?
by Thomas Bulkowski
Futures traders often use a three-bar swing low as a reversal
pattern,but is the three-bar pattern reliable for stocks?Find
out here.
I discovered this gem of a pattern while prospecting

Are Trading Systems Smarter Than Technicians?

ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A few days ago, I wrote that the silver market was exhibiting the potential for a trend reversal. The silver market had other plans, one that a well-designed trading system has profited from.

Are Two Channels Better Than One? by Stephane Reverre

ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Are Two Channels
Better Than One?
by Stéphane Reverre
This author tested two channels based on Bollinger Bands
around a standard moving average and an application of the
capital asset pricing model, and discovered that a combination of the two performs

Are We Finally at a Bottom? SPY Buy Setup

Are We Seeing a Bottom Hammer?

ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Since peaking in the mid-twenties, this stock has been free falling to multi-year lows. Now it is trying to hold its previous low -- a candlestick &quot;bottom hammer&quot; -- but will it stick ?

Are We There Yet?

ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Those readers who have children, and have been on a car trip with the kids sitting in the back seat, know the answer to this question. Unfortunately, it appears that most investors do not.

Are You A Gambler Or A Risk Technician?

Are You All Gassed Up?

ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The name of the game is energy, and gas is one of the cheapest available, but the gas has to be conveyed, and by pipelines. So what about a company that has both gas and the pipeline?

Are You Trading For A Living Or Living For A Trade?

Are You Trading On Borrowed Time?

ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The market party peaked at midnight and it&apos;s now 4:00 am. Someone has just arrived with a fresh round of drinks. But here are some sobering thoughts for those getting their second wind.

Are Your Inputs Correlated? by Clifford J. Sherry, Ph.D.

ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Are Your Inputs Correlated? by Clifford J. Sherry, Ph.D.
If you use neural nets to model the behavior of equity markets in an effort to develop a trading strategy, it's likely that your model has multiple inputs. You may very well find that two or more

Are Your Investments Protected?

Are Your Profits Robust? by Steve Notis

ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Are Your Profits Robust? by Steve Notis
Your trading system probably has a set of parameters you
think are the most profitable. But is it the most consistent?
Here's a technique to find the most robust set that will give you regular profits.
For those

Are junk stocks really dogs? by Bill Dunbar

ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Are junk stocks really dogs? by Bill Dunbar
Why this article? In spite of what my wife says, I do follow my own advice, at least part of the time.
In some of the past issues of Stocks & Commodities I have promoted bottom fishing, not to catch healthy
co

Are there gaps in your thinking? by Richard W. Arms Jr.

ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Are there gaps in your thinking? by Richard W. Arms Jr.
Usually in the use of technical analysis we are concerned with what happened and how it happened in order to predict what will happen. But there are times when what didn't happen can be as importan

Are there patterns in financial ratios? by Clifford J. Sherry, Ph.D.

ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Are there patterns in financial ratios? by Clifford J. Sherry, Ph.D.
Technical analysts strive to find patterns in the past history of the prices of stocks and commodities
(using charts, moving averages, etc.) that will allow them to predict future pric

BID Bubble Meter Says Animal Spirits Are Falling

ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...When auctioneer Sotheby&apos;s stock is rising, it means the auction business is growing and folks are feeling bullish about the future. When it falls, it usually signals that a risk-off trade should be considered.

Combo Deals Are Better

ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading decisions can be simplified if both psychological and mechanical aspects of price action are understood. A combination of candlesticks and Western oscillators does that job well.

Hewlett-Packard: Are We There Yet?

How Effective Are Rectangles? by Markos Katsanos

ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:6 (16-26): How Effective Are Rectangles? by Markos Katsanos
It's one of the oldest patterns in technical analysis, but how reliable is it? By statistically evaluating the performance of rectangle formations, we can derive a ne

How Fit Are You For Trading? by Ned Gandevani, Ph.D.

ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How Fit Are You For Trading? by Ned Gandevani, Ph.D.
Reach your full potential as a trader by understanding your
psychological makeup.
Trading psychology plays an instrumental role
in successful trading. Traders who are successful
realize they are not

How Secure Are Your Securities? by John A. Sarkett

ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How Secure Are Your Securities? by John A. Sarkett
How well protected are your stocks and options in
your brokerage account?
Two classic Zen koans and one modern
riddle you may never have considered: What
is the sound of one hand clapping? Does a
dog h

How useful are stochastics for trading? by Jack D. Schwager and Norman Strahm

ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How useful are stochastics for trading? by Jack D. Schwager and Norman Strahm
In the current popular trading systems terminology, a stochastic refers to a measure of the placement of
the current price within a recent range. If the current price is near

Newmont And The Gold Bugs Are Very Oversold

Part 2: Are junk stocks really dogs? by Bill Dunbar

ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...part 2: Are junk stocks really dogs? by Bill Dunbar
This is the second part of an article by the same title published in a previous issue of Stocks &
Commodities. In the first half, my question was related to investment in junk stocks near the peak of t

Precious Metals Are Rising But Won't Skyrocket

ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...There is a game-changer taking place right now that will have far-reaching effects on everything you buy, sell, or invest in and you can get left behind if you don&apos;t understand what markets are going to benefit from it.

Questions Are The Heart Of The Matter by Ruth Barrons Roosevelt

ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Questions Are The Heart Of The Matter by Ruth Barrons Roosevelt
Questions can confound you or they can enlighten you. How can they help you in your trading?
If you're not making money through your trading, you are probably not asking the right question

Retail ETFs Are A Mixed Bag

ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Are you interested in learning more about using exchange traded funds (ETFs) in your trading? Leslie N. Masonson, an active ETF trader, is president of Cash Management Resources, a financial consulting firm that focuses on ETF strategies. He is the autho

SIDEBAR: How moving averages are computed

ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...SIDEBAR: How moving averages are computed
Moving average are usually specified by two parameters. The first is the length of the moving average and is generally expressed in the same periodicity as the data. For example, if we have the daily price of th

Things Are Looking Up For Natural Gas

Three Signals Are Better Than One

ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Correlating signals in multiple time frames increases the odds of a successful trade. Selecting a quality setup, like a reversal chart pattern in a micro time frame along with it, offers a trader endless opportunities to create wealth and protect capital

Triangles and Fan Lines: Are All the Box Makers Heading Lower?

What Are Insiders Telling Us?

ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...What corporate insiders do in the stock market can tell us a lot about where they believe the market is going. When corporate executives are buying their company&apos;s stock in greater than average amounts, it often means a market bottom of sorts. Whe

What Are Those Indicators Really Indicating?

What Are You Waiting For?

ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Patience and discipline -- two buzzwords in trading. But to be patient, you have to know what you are waiting for, and when you know what you're waiting for, it's easier to be disciplined. Here's how you can accomplish this feat.

What Type Of Investor Are You?

ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Time frame, capital, patience, assertiveness, rule following, and temperament are all large parts of investment success. In order to make the most of our individual inherent abilities to perform well at certain functions you must ask yourself some very e

Where Are The Markets Headed From Here?

ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Divergence analysis using momentum indicators can assist traders in spotting potential trend changes weeks before they occur. Here, we examine what the Chaikin money flow indicator may be trying to tell us.

Working Money: How Reliable Are Candlesticks? by Giovanni Maiani

Working Money: What Are Insiders Telling Us? by Matt Blackman

Working Money: What Are Pivots? by Dennis D. Peterson

ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Working Money: What Are Pivots? by Dennis D. Peterson
More than just an alternative to indicators,
pivots can be used to better understand market
behavior.
The appearance of pivots on a chart suggests the
market has made a decision about price action.